Course description
The course is designed to familiarise Officers and Ratings with the latest policies of the Company, procedures, alerts, and bulletins and the vessel they will join.
Facility
The course is conducted in spacious classrooms with modern teaching aids to facilitate comfortable learning.
Objective
To impart information about the vessel trainees are about to join.
To increase performance efficiency of trainees and their awareness on safety and environmental protection
All Officers and Ratings
The ECDIS support cell is a dedicated team within FMTI that provides technical assistance to our bridge teams who may have issues related to ECDIS, ENCs or similar navigational processes. It also provides guidance to crew for PSC and vetting inspections and oversees the 'management of change' for dual ECDIS vessels or during new ECDIS installation onboard.
To teams onshore, it provides support in drafting policies, analysis of vetting findings and incident investigation.
From time to time, the ECDIS support cell provides insights to key policymakers and industry stakeholders from UKHO, IHO and INTERTANKO to ECDIS manufacturers and ENC suppliers.
In parallel, the team provides bespoke training to class surveyors and auditors and has been a recipient of the Navigational Safety Award at the First World ECDIS Day.